Tucking-guide for sewing-machines.



' E. SERODINO.

TUGKING GUIDE FOR SEWING MACHINES.

APPLIbATION FILED 00!.10, 1904.

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PATENTED AUG. 21, 1,906.

UNITED STATES @PATENT OFFICE.

ELLA SERODINO, OF NEW ORLEANS. LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO WILLIAM H. LE VIN, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

TUCKlNG-GUIDE FOR SEWING-MACHINES- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed October 10, 1904. Serial No. 227.369.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLA Snnonmo, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful lucking-Gruide or Tuck-Folder and Lace-Sewer Attachment for Sewing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a sewing-machine attachment for tucking material of all kinds without the necessity of first folding or marking the successive tucks and to guide the lace in sewing it upon a hem or rufile or as inserted.

The objects of my invention are to provide an attachment of easy adjustment to any sewing-machine, having a firm hold on the sewing-machine cloth-plate, with a flexibility of the gaging-sections, rendering it easy to place the material to be sewed within the same, and so constructed that by the several adjustable arts any width of tuck may be sewed and t is distance of the same from previously-sewed tucks regulated without marking or folding of the material sewed and laces may be sewed upon hems or ruilles or inserted with the accurac r of hand work. I attain these obj eets by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the entire mechanism with the tucking attachment in place. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a section alon the line as :c on Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is the removab y-attachable plate for lace-sewing.

Similar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The invention consists in the main of four se arable and distinct parts, all of metal. T e base-plate l is rovided with a slotted o ening1 4, surroun ed by a raised rim 5, t rou which opening the plate is firmly attached to any sewing-m achme by means of a thumb-screw. A portion of plate 1 of equal width with the sliding plates 2 and 3 of Fig. 4 is raised, as shown at 6, and extends entirely across the plate 1, aflording. a restin bed for the sliding plates 2 and 3. The sliding plate 2 has a hook portion forming a groove or guide at the end 7, wherein the sewed tuck is to be placed when in use. The

sliding plate 3 has an offset about midway its length at 8 extended on either side, which is the guide for the edge of the tuck to be sewed. These sliding plates are removably secured in any manner to the plate 1, preferably by the thumb-screws, as at 9 and 10, passing through the slots 11 and 12, and are adjustable to make any desired width of tuck and space between tucks by sliding the same backward and forward. I prefer to do this, however, by means of the pinions l3 and 14 in contact with the racks 15 and 16, which are made part of the plates 2 and 3 on opposite sides. The pinions l3 and 14. are swiveled to the plate 1.

F or tucking and tuck-folding the plates 2 and 3 are used. The width of the tuck to be sewed is gaged by moving the guide-bar 8, which is part of the plate 3, to the right of the needle-point, and the distance between tucks by moving the guide-bar 7, which is part of plate 2, to the left of the needle-point the distance desired in addition to the width of the tuck previously sewed. The sliding plate 2 is provided with a scale 17.

For sewing laces upon horns and ruffles or inserting same into material the plate represented by Fig. 4 is used. The plate is adjusted to the base-plate 1 in the same relative position as plate 2 occupies in Fig. l. The lace to be sewed is inserted in the forked end of the plate represented by Fig. 4, passing under the part A, over B, and under O. The cloth to which the same is to be sewed is placed upon plate 3, the edge of the same being against the guide-bar 8, which is adjusted to the neeessar T width for hem required by moving the bar to the right of the needle. The ed e of the lace to be sewed is brought in line with the needle-point at the gage-mark D.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A tucking-guide, comprising a baselate for attachment to a sewing-machine, an pro vided with a raised portion transversely thereof, a plurality of longitudinally-slotted plates having rac s upon one edge thereof and mounted on the raised portion, the racks projecting upon opposite sides of the raised portion, set-screws traversing the slots and engaging the raised portion, pinions journaled on the base and engaging the racks, the In testimony whereof I have signed my upper plate being provided with a downname to this specification in the presence of wardly-projeeting hook forming a groove for two witnesses.

receiving the edge of the previously-sewed ELLA SERODINO. tuck, and the lower plate with an ofl 'set, the Witnesses:

face thereof forming a guide for the edge of EMMA C. LE VIN,

the tuck to be sewed. \VM. H. LE VIN. 

